[Samba] Moving Samba to a different Linux server.

[Dan Gapinski]

Sorry, the error was "unable to open passdb database"
Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Gapinski" <dan.gapinski at qsi-r2.com>
To: "Samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 12:44 AM
Subject: Fw: [Samba] Moving Samba to a different Linux server.


> Please help,
>
>  I am having a problem with a Samba server I have attempted to move to a
new
>  Redhat 9 box (it was on Redhat 9 before).
>
>  Here's the what I did:
>  1) I transferred the follwing files & dirs to the fresh RedHat box :
>  /etc/passwd
>  /etc/shadow
>  /etc/group
>  /etc/gshadow
>  /etc/samba/* (the whole dir)
>  /var/cache/samba/* (the whole dir)
>  2) I stopped SMB services on the old box
>  3) I started SMB services on the new box
>  4) I changed its dynamic IP address to static.
>  5) I stopped the IP tables service
>
>  I can locate the domain controller from the client, but get an error
saying
> "Cannot locate the passdb database".
>
> Is this a SID issue? Is there any way to get around that (copy over the
SID
> database)?
>
>  Any help you may be able to offer would be most appreciated.
>  My best,
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <daniel.jarboe at custserv.com>
> > To: <dan.gapinski at qsi-r2.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:43 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Samba] Moving Samba to a different Linux server.
> >
> >
> > > Tdb files... /var/cache/samba/
> > >
> > > ~ Daniel
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Dan Gapinski [mailto:dan.gapinski at qsi-r2.com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:02 PM
> > > > To: Lista Samba
> > > > Subject: [Samba] Moving Samba to a different Linux server.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am looking for a second opinion. When moving a Samba PDC
> > > > service to a
> > > > different Linux server (we run Redhat 9 here), would you
> > > > include anything
> > > > other than the following:
> > > >
> > > > /etc/passwd
> > > > /etc/shadow
> > > > /etc/group
> > > > /etc/gshadow
> > > > /etc/samba/*
> > > >
> > > > Is there anythings else that I should be paying attention to?
> > > > Thanks for
> > > > everything.
> > > >
> > > > My best,
> > > > Dan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- 
> > >
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